Over the years I have hosted cops from all over the world. Several Americans have stayed with us & I always have a keen interest in what’s going on with our brothers & sisters across the pond.

They’re having a bit of a bad week out there at the moment.

On Sunday the NYPD lost an officer when he was pushed over a railing while trying to arrest a domestic violence suspect. Officer Alain Schaberger was pushed over a balcony & fell head first onto a concrete stairwell. He landed on his head & broke his neck Ă‚Â dying at the scene. He was a 10-year veteran & will be laid to rest on Friday.

The day before Nassau County PD cop lost his life in a tragic shooting by a fellow police officer. Officers were called to an incident with a 21-year-old male who had several knives strapped to his body whilstĂ‚Â wieldingĂ‚Â other knives. Officers from several departments attended the scene & when the offender charged at officers, he was shot & killed by an officer. A few minutes later other officers arrived from theĂ‚Â Metropolitan Transportation Authority & NYPD Special Operations officers, including Geoffrey Breitkopf,Ă‚Â who were in plain clothes.

For reasons which aren’t clear one of the MTA officers fired a shot at Officer Breitkopf. He died a short while later. His funeral is also this Friday.

Meanwhile, also on 13th March, in Virginia, four officers were shot as they arrived at the scene of a robbery. Two of theĂ‚Â Buchanan County Sheriff Department officers were killed, the other two are in life-threatening or serious conditions. The offender, who shot the officers from long range, was found two hours after the shooting & in an ‘engagement’ he was shot & killed. The slain officers wereĂ‚Â Deputies Cameron Neil Justus, 41, and William Ezra Stiltner, 46.